Quotations Atheism & Atheists
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Quotations Atheism: From many sources that expose its pretenses, lack of rationality, & accountability with the known facts of human life.
“The atheist believes the foolishness that nothing (void) decided for no reason (without thinking) to make everything out of nothing (using no materials, mechanisms, or methods) for nothing (no design or purpose) using only nothing (no organizing intelligence or processes) only to return everything back to nothing again (no meaning). Yet, the atheist still has the gall to attack the beliefs of others.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“From the historical point of view, what is interesting is Darwin’s extension to the whole of life of the economics that characterized the philosophical radicals. The motive force of evolution, according to him, is a kind of biological economics in a world of free competition.” —Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy
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Quotations Atheism: Various Sources
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“According to the atheist, evolution is obsessed with superiority like all good fascist systems.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“All our knowledge of truths depends upon our intuitive knowledge.” —Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy
“All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed waste-paper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.” —David Herbert Lawrence, 1885-1930
“Almost all the questions of interest to speculative minds are such as science cannot answer.” —Bertrand Russell
“As a rule, men do wrong to others whenever they have the power to do it.” —Aristotle, Rhetoric
“Atheism contains no inherent moral principles.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheists claim that no one can prove there is a God so no one should believe in one; however, this is hypocritical because no can prove that there is not a God so no one should believe that there is not a God.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“But science, unadulterated, is not satisfying; men also need passion and art and religion.” —Bertrand Russell
“Cynicism—the intellectual cripple’s substitute for intelligence.” —Joseph Russell Lynes, Jr.
“Darwin now poses a final challenge. Whether biology will rise to this last one as well as it did to the first, when his theory upset every apple cart, remains to be seen. How cleanly and quickly can the field get over Darwin, and move on? This is one of the most important questions facing science in the twenty-first century.” —David Gelernter, Claremont Review of Books
“Darwinism is no longer just a scientific theory but the basis of a worldview, and an emergency religion for the many troubled souls who need one.” —David Gelernter, Claremont Review of Books
“Don’t talk long to skeptics or to those who claim to be atheists.” —Rumi
“Duty can only exist in relation to beings, and when you are alone and have a sense of duty then that duty is in relationship to God.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“From the historical point of view, what is interesting is Darwin’s extension to the whole of life of the economics that characterized the philosophical radicals. The motive force of evolution, according to him, is a kind of biological economics in a world of free competition.” —Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy
“Human thinking cannot know or contain anything because things are too complex, contain too many details, contain too many variables, and are constantly changing.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“I do not myself believe that philosophy can either prove or disprove the truth of religious dogma.” —Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy
“I’m not sure I want popular opinion on my side—I’ve noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.” —Bethania McKenstry
“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” —Anatole France
“If objective good and evil do not exist, then the objection to the existence of God because of the existence of evil does not exist because there is no objective evil.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“If the art of shipbuilding were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.” —Aristotle
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.” —Charles Darwin
“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.” —Fyodor Dostoevsky
“It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.” —G. K. [Gilbert Keith] Chesterton, “The Oracle of the Dog” (1923)
“Likewise, someone who criticizes is criticizing himself, saying implicitly, ‘I can’t see very will with my eyes so inflamed.’” —Rumi
“Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.” —Woody Allen, Manhattan
“One should not wrongly reify’ cause’ and ‘effect,’ as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now ‘naturalizes’ in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it ‘effects’ its end; one should use’ cause’ and ‘effect’ only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication—not for explanation.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“People who believe human thinking and feeling are all biologically driven are believing in the inherent power in things; however, things have no inherent power to do anything.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Science cannot establish the validity of the scientific method without first assuming its validity without science.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” —Richard Phillips Feynman
“Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of very great importance.” —Bertrand Russell
“Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.” —Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
“Scientism is the view that science is the only reliable method for knowing the truth about the world. However, science does not exist before it exists, so some truths preexist science that science is built upon.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Scientists, like Feminists, take zero responsibility for anything.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.” ―François de La Rochefoucauld
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” —William Shakespeare, 1546-1616
“The three imaginary gods of atheists are the Universe, Nature, and Evolution because they worship their imaginary intelligence and power.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“The validity of the inductive principle itself cannot be proved by induction.” —Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy
“There are more acts of faith in riding an elevator twenty-stories than there are in the act of faith in God.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.” —Alfred Korzybski
“There is one God, the greatest among gods and men, in no way similar to mortals either in body or in thought.” —Xenophanes, as quoted by Clement
“There remains however, a vast field, traditionally included in philosophy, where scientific methods are inadequate. This field includes ultimate questions of value; science alone, for example, cannot prove that it is bad to enjoy the infliction of cruelty.” —Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy
“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.” —Francis Bacon
“This doctrine [evolution], which is now generally accepted, was not new. It has been maintained by Lamarck and Darwin’s grandfather Erasmus, not to mention Anaximander.” —Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy
“To help create a brand new form of organism, a mutation must affect a gene that does its job early and controls the expression of other genes that come into play as the organism grows. Evidently, there are a total of no examples in the literature of mutations that affect early development and the body plan as a whole and are not fatal.” —David Gelernter, Claremont Review of Books
“Thus the greater part of what would commonly pass as knowledge is more or less probable opinion.” —Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy
“Whatever can be known, can be known by means of science; but things which are legitimately matters of feeling lie outside its province.” —Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy
“With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.” —Georg Christopher Lichtenberg, 1742-1799
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Quotations Atheism: Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
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“According to the atheist, energy does not exist as no one has ever seen, heard, smelled, tasted, or touched energy at any time.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“An atheist can’t see, hear, touch, taste, or smell space so space can’t exist for an atheist.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“An atheist can’t see, hear, touch, taste, or smell time so time can’t exist for an atheist.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“An atheist is a dishonest agnostic: An agnostic is someone who says that they do not know if there is a God or not because creation/cause is not and/or cannot be known (this is a rational position only if one limits themselves entirely to the pathetic knowing system of thought).” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“An atheist is a hypocritical fool who agrees to use inductive reasoning to believe in the existence of energy, photons, and gravity for nature—but who will not use the same inductive reasoning to believe in the spirit, love, or grace of God.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“An atheist is a hypocritical thinker who denies some things based on not being able to verify them but accepts other things they cannot verify but can construe based on effects.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“An atheist is a pantheist who covers up his pantheism with words like ‘nature’ and ‘universe.’ “ —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“An atheist is a person whose logic is the same as the insanely jealous: “I can discover fault everywhere, and nothing can disprove my doubts.” For an example of the insanely jealous, see the French movie L’Enfer.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“An atheist is a superstitious fool who attributes powers and abilities to human conceptions as if they were spirits, e.g., evolution, nature, universe, science.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“An atheist is a superstitious fool who believes that spirits inhabit and direct the universe along with scientific rules and principles.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“An atheist is a superstitious fool who believes that spirits inhabit rocks and cause rocks to grow and develop life forms.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“An atheist is a superstitious fool who praises and worships the modern name for god: nature.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“An atheist is one who knows that the bird couldn’t itself either plan to fly or survive while waiting to fly and so tries to explain flying with a superstitious belief in supernatural planning by a concept called evolution.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“An atheist is one who tries to get around the fact that plan must exist before order with pantheism, with the superstitious beliefs of nature and evolution as miraculous planers.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“An atheist is someone who ignores the law of nature that there is no process in nature that can create matter in favor of the myth that dumb matter magically created itself without either the ability or the reason to do so.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“An atheist is someone who knows that all human, animal, and plant behavior is driven by intention and goal, but who, nevertheless, blindly believes that life itself has no intention or goal.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“An atheist is someone whose ontology and epistemology limit the use of each other to the single function of verifying each other.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“An atheist is a fool who thinks that since they can’t figure out how God exists, that, therefore, God can’t exist.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“An atheist is a fool who tries to reduce all understanding of life to thinking.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“An atheist is a madman who claims to be reasonable and rational and yet blindly believes the irrational hypothesis that the universe was created ‘by nothing out of nothing with nothing using nothing for nothing only to eventually be nothing’ over the rational hypothesis that the universe was created ‘by something out of nothing for something.’” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“An atheist is an unscientific person who observes the natural adaptability built into every species as evidence that species are changing into other species.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“An atheist is an unscientific person who relates to and trusts in science as his/her god.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Anyone who thinks that a dragonfly was created by accident or chance has not lived life.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheism cannot help but replace beauty, goodness, high virtues, morality, and truth with meaninglessness, purposelessness, and relativism because there is no fundamental need for animals or plants to have or to be conscious of deep values.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheism is a superstitious belief in the magical power of chance to create structured interdependency in complex systems.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheism is unscientific because it magically holds the belief that God does not exist without having any evidence or proof for that belief.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheism is when a man doesn’t believe his wife had his child without getting a DNA test to verify it.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheism is when whatever you cannot measure, you anthropocentrically claim does not exist.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheism is when you are mystical about the universe as god and/or spiritual about nature as god.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheism is when you are religious about not being religious.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheism is when you cannot see or experience with your heart, but only with thought.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheism is when you cannot see past your own nose or the limits of physical measurement.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheism is when you claim to know without knowing the limits of knowing.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheism is when you deny the laws of nature and science that state that all things tend to disorder in favor of the myth of evolution that things created order in the universe.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheism is when you deny the laws of nature that state that destruction does not cause creation in favor of the myth that the destruction known as the “big bang” created everything.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheism is when you do not understand logic. Why? Because logic alone proves God. How? Because of the fact that something exists means that it must have been caused. You must then answer what the cause is. And the only way to not wind up with tautological nonsense is to answer that there is a cause that causes itself. Otherwise, you are continually looking for the cause of the cause you just claimed was the cause. Even if you posit many gods, you still have the problem of who caused them. The only solution is one God who is self-sustaining. Logically, there can only be one who causes Himself. The name of God, Jehovah, means self-sustaining or self-existent. ‘And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you (Exodus 3:14)’.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheism is when you do not understand that systems cannot prove themselves and all proofs for systems, even mathematical systems (Kurt Gödel), must come from outside themselves.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheism is when you do not understand the logic that a set cannot contain itself because there has to be something outside of and greater than itself.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheism is when you do not understand the simple fact that all absolutes exist and can only be sensed internally, not externally, for instance, mathematics.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheism is when you ignore the fact that all matter is devolving into disorder without any sign of any ability to evolve into order for the sake of the myth of evolution.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheism is when you ignore the law of nature that no process of nature can produce matter in favor of the myth of evolution that matter created itself without any ability, intention, purpose, or desire to do so.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheism is when you think you are smarter than God.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheism is when you think you are your thoughts, which is absurd as then who is it that is having your thoughts, experiencing your thoughts, or existing after your thoughts?” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheism is when your epistemology exists only to prove your ontology.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheism is when your epistemology is controlled by your ontology.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheism is when your epistemology is limited by your ontology.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheism is when your idols are human conceptions, evolution, nature, science, and technology.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheism is when your ontology and epistemology are locked in tautology.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheism is when your ontology blinds your epistemology.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheism is when your superficial perception, thinking, awareness, insight, and understanding are supposed to pass for reason and intelligence.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheists believe in nothing: started the universe with nothing, designed the universe with nothing, planned the universe for nothing, and will return the universe to nothing.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheists claim that no one can prove there is a God, so no one should believe in one; however, this is hypocritical because no one can prove that there is not a God, so no one should believe that there is not a God.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Atheists claim they have no god; however, they serve the god of pride in claiming to know the unknowable.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Change rarely exists, but variation is constant.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Empiricism has two forms: internal and external. There are also two forms of a fool: those that have faith only in internal empiricism (mystic) or those that have faith only in external empiricism (atheist).” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Evolution is a magical misunderstanding, misrepresentation, and misinterpretation of the facts of species adaptability, variability, and commonality.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Evolution is what you get when you interpret the law of variation to mean fantastic things never seen nor proved.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Evolution, like astrology, takes real data and then forces a superstitious interpretation over that data.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Life is variation, not change.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Scientist is the term given to the kind of fool who tries to prove matter over mind.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Since plan always comes before product, theories of evolution and nature are false by definition because these man-made plans come after the fact.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Since the atheist cannot see, hear, touch, taste, or smell gravity or magnetism, then gravity and magnetism cannot exist for the fool.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Since the atheist cannot see, hear, touch, taste, or smell something, then that something cannot exist for them whatever it is, e.g., love or the self of another human being.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“The fool who says he does not believe in God because his single method for measuring truth denies God is like a fool who says he does not believe anything exists that he cannot see under a microscope. Someone educate these fools that there are many ways to sense, experience, and verify and that everyone regularly uses more than one.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“The three imaginary gods of atheists are the Universe, Nature, and Evolution because they worship their imaginary intelligence and power.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“The law of non-repetition accounts for all the misinterpretations and distortions of evolutionary theory.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“The methods of science cannot disprove the possibility of supernatural causes and effects because the methods of science can only be applied to natural causes and effects.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“The same problems for proof exist for the existence of thought as exist for the existence of God.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“The theory of evolution is maintained by the fear of not having an alternative to creationism.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
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Quotations Atheism: Scripture
“The fool hath said in his heart, there is no god.” —Psalms 14:1
“There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.” —Proverbs 21:30
“Surely vain are all men by nature, who are ignorant of God, and could not out of the good things that are seen know him that is: neither by considering the works did they acknowledge the workmaster;” —Wisdom of Solomon 13:1
“He that is not wise will not be taught: but there is a wisdom which multiplieth bitterness.” —Ecclesiasticus 21:12
“For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: because that, when they knew God, they glorified himnot as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.” —Romans 1: 20-23
“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” —I Corinthians 2:14
“O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:” —I Timothy 6:20
“Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.” —Hebrews 11:3
“But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;” —II Peter 2:12
“For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:” —II Peter 3:5
“But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.” —Jude 1:10
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